Public Participation GIS: a FOSS architecture enabling field-data collection

Brovelli, M. A.; Minghini, Marco; Zamboni, Giorgio

doi:10.1080/17538947.2014.887150

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“…The method is developed for the public administration of the Veneto Region, with the scope of excluding significant negative impact, in order to simplify and improve the quality of European EIA. Further developments can be foreseen in the integration with collaborative web-GIS platforms [39] to include public participation fitting the view of Digital Earth (DE) [46]. Furthermore, a professional can use this instrument to simplify and improve his work.…”

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confidence: 99%

Geo-Spatial Support for Assessment of Anthropic Impact on Biodiversity

Piragnolo

Pirotti

Guarnieri

et al. 2014

IJGI

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This paper discusses a methodology where geo-spatial analysis tools are used to quantify risk derived from anthropic activities on habitats and species. The method has been developed with a focus on simplification and the quality of standard procedures set on flora and fauna protected by the European Directives. In this study case, the DPSIR (Drivers, Pressures, State, Impacts, Responses) is applied using spatial procedures in a geographical information system (GIS) framework. This approach can be inserted in a multidimensional space as the analysis is applied to each threat, pressure and activity and also to each habitat and species, at the spatial and temporal scale. Threats, pressures and activities, stress and indicators can be managed by means of a geo-database and analyzed using spatial analysis functions in a tested GIS workflow environment. The method applies a matrix with risk values, and the final product is a geo-spatial representation of impact indicators, which can be used as a support for decision-makers at various levels (regional, national and European).

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Geo-Spatial Support for Assessment of Anthropic Impact on Biodiversity

Piragnolo

Pirotti

Guarnieri

et al. 2014

IJGI

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“…There is a need to establish new forms of participation that are truly democratic and widely representative in nature, giving meaning to conceptions of people-centred democracy. Such interventions include: dialogical public participation, taking advantage of the interactive nature of the Web (using mobile phones, too) and allowing bidirectional communication, the use of user-generated content, and geographic information in the exercise of policymaking (Brovelli et al, 2014). In Van der Meer's (2017) view, the principles and values of a representative democracy should be deeply embedded in society, enabling responsive governance to thrive.…”

Section: Public Participation and The Limits Of State-led Participatory Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Peacebuilding through Public Participation Mechanisms in Local Government: The Case Study of Mbizana Local Municipality, South Africa

Dube¹,

Mnguni

Tschudin³

2021

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

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This article asserts the importance of public participation in local government, through social action research, in order to achieve good governance. We examine how bad local governance negatively impacts the socio-economic development trajectory of communities. Based on fieldwork conducted in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, this article illustrates the transformative role participatory processes and good governance played as peacebuilding mechanisms to achieve positive peace in the Mbizana local municipality. The municipality's geography spans from deep rural areas to the urban central business district (CBD). A mixed qual-quant methodology with a phased rollout was applied to engage the local government and communities involved, and target with precision the lived reality of the residents. The findings of the study point to the transformative nature of the local participatory processes that entailed building confidence between the municipal authorities, the NGO Good Governance Africa (GGA) and the Mbizana community, and new ideas on how to facilitate public participation. Our conclusion is that civil society organisations should build trust with local authorities in communities for public participation interventions to be successful. This outlook differs to perceiving local authorities as a threat or barrier to direct interventions. The combination of participatory processes and good governance restored the community's confidence in the municipality through shared governance information and capacity building. This hybrid approach can be replicated and applied to promote sustainable peace in communities that face similar challenges.

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“…Meanwhile, the Towns Conquer game [21] was developed using Android SDK and ArcGIS SDK on the mobile client side, web services using PHP and SQL Server database on the server side. Another generic system architecture suitable for public participation using free open source software and mobile apps was studied [46,47]. In this system architecture, ODK Collect and the ODK Aggregate modules store data with a PostgreSQL database.…”

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A Citizen Science Approach for Collecting Toponyms

Perdana

Ostermann

2018

IJGI

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Abstract:The emerging trends and technologies of surveying and mapping potentially enable local experts to contribute and share their local geographical knowledge of place names (toponyms). We can see the increasing numbers of toponyms in digital platforms, such as OpenStreetMap, Facebook Place Editor, Swarm Foursquare, and Google Local Guide. On the other hand, government agencies keep working to produce concise and complete gazetteers. Crowdsourced geographic information and citizen science approaches offer a new paradigm of toponym collection. This paper addresses issues in the advancing toponym practice. First, we systematically examined the current state of toponym collection and handling practice by multiple stakeholders, and we identified a recurring set of problems. Secondly, we developed a citizen science approach, based on a crowdsourcing level of participation, to collect toponyms. Thirdly, we examined the implementation in the context of an Indonesian case study. The results show that public participation in toponym collection is an approach with the potential to solve problems in toponym handling, such as limited human resources, accessibility, and completeness of toponym information. The lessons learnt include the knowledge that the success of this approach depends on the willingness of the government to advance their workflow, the degree of collaboration between stakeholders, and the presence of a communicative approach in introducing and sharing toponym guidelines with the community.Keywords: citizen science; volunteered geographic information (VGI); toponym; crowdsourced data collection; data quality Opportunities for New Approaches to Collect Place NamesPlace names (known as toponyms) are an indispensable component of our communication about geographic features or regions, both natural and man-made [1,2]. They serve many purposes, including the obvious need for unambiguous identification for navigation, but also for current territorial claims and managing a society's past (e.g., to compare the renaming of streets or even entire cities following a regime change) [3][4][5][6][7][8]. Toponyms frequently have deeper meanings, often involving complicated semantics related to language and history [9][10][11], but many toponyms also describe the features they name. Some example toponyms from Indonesia are derived from folklore tales (Mount Tangkubanperahu, Banyuwangi), historical names (Jakarta from Jayakarta), or names of persons that have been adjusted to the local language (Malioboro from General Malborough, or Sampur from Zandvoort) [12][13][14]. Other (natural) features can cross multiple linguistic regions, for example, the river "Danube" has several names: "Donau" in Germany and Austria, "Dunaj" in Slovakia, "Duna" in Hungary, "Dunav" in Croatia and Serbia, "Dunav" and " On the other hand, government agencies p working to produce concise and complete gazetteers. Crowdsourced geographic information d citizen science approaches offer a new paradigm of toponym collection. This paper addresses ues ...

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Public Participation GIS: a FOSS architecture enabling field-data collection

Cited by 28 publications

References 25 publications

Geo-Spatial Support for Assessment of Anthropic Impact on Biodiversity

Geo-Spatial Support for Assessment of Anthropic Impact on Biodiversity

Peacebuilding through Public Participation Mechanisms in Local Government: The Case Study of Mbizana Local Municipality, South Africa

A Citizen Science Approach for Collecting Toponyms

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